World No 2 Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension on Thursday after testing positive for a prohibited substance; Simona Halep was provisionally suspended in October 2022 and later banned for four years,

Simona Halep has questioned the "big difference" in how doping cases are handled after world number two Iga Swiatek receives a one-month ban.

Simona Halep questioned the "big difference" in how doping cases are treated after world number two Iga Swiatek was handed a one-month drugs ban while the Romanian was out of action for over 18 months following two separate anti-doping violations.

Simona Halep has hit out at what she claims is a “big difference” between the way doping cases are handled in tennis. It was revealed on Thursday that world number two Iga Swiatek had been banned for one month – the majority of it served secretly as a provisional suspension – after testing positive for the angina drug trimetazidine.

Romanian questions why she was banned for more than 18 months for her drugs violation while the Polish world No 1 was suspended for 1 month.